Kenneth E Kunkel

Projected changes in rare extreme precipitation design values in the United States due to global warming

Kunkel, K. E., Sun, X., & Sun, L. (2025, April 25). Frontiers of Earth Science, Vol. 4.

Projections of future climate for U.S. national assessments: past, present, future

Basile, S., Crimmins, A., Lipschultz, F., Kunkel, K. E., Marvel, K., Terando, A., … Hayhoe, K. (2025, April 1). Climatic Change.

A rapid response process for evaluating causes of extreme temperature events in the United States: The 2023 Texas/Louisiana heat wave as a prototype

Schreck, C. J., Easterling, D. R., Barsugli, J., Coates, D. A., Hoell, A., Johnson, N. C., … Zhang, X. (2024, September 26). Environmental Research Climate.

Long-term planning requires climate projections beyond 2100

Easterling, D. R., Kunkel, K. E., Crimmins, A. R., & Wehner, M. F. (2024, August 9). Nature Climate Change.

On the Generating Mechanisms of Daily Precipitation in the Conterminous United States: Climatology, Trends, and Associated Marginal and Extreme Distributions

Alshehri, M., Mascaro, G., & Kunkel, K. E. (2024, October 24). Journal of Hydrometeorology.

Synoptic Typing of Multiduration, Heavy Precipitation Records in the Northeastern United States: 1895–2017

Crossett, C. C., Dupigny-Giroux, L.-A. L., Kunkel, K. E., Betts, A. K., & Bomblies, A. (2023, May 24). Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.

Why Has the Summertime Central U.S. Warming Hole Not Disappeared?

Eischeid, J. K., Hoerling, M. P., Quan, X.-W., Kumar, A., Barsugli, J., Labe, Z. M., … Zhang, X. (2023, July 31). Journal of Climate.

Development of a Rapid Response Capability to Evaluate Causes of Extreme Temperature and Drought Events in the United States

Barsugli, J. J., Easterling, D. R., Arndt, D. S., Coates, D. A., Delworth, T. L., Hoerling, M. P., … Zhang, T. (2022, March 1). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Extreme Precipitation Trends and Meteorological Causes Over the Laurentian Great Lakes

Kunkel, K. E., Yin, X., Sun, L., Champion, S. M., Stevens, L. E., & Johnson, K. M. (2022, May 23). Frontiers in Water.

Incorporating non-stationarity from climate change into rainfall frequency and intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) curves

Schlef, K. E., Kunkel, K. E., Brown, C., Demissie, Y., Lettenmaier, D. P., Wagner, A., … Yan, E. (2022, November 25). Journal of Hydrology.

Machine Learning‐Based Detection of Weather Fronts and Associated Extreme Precipitation in Historical and Future Climates

Dagon, K., Truesdale, J., Biard, J. C., Kunkel, K. E., Meehl, G. A., & Molina, M. J. (2022, October 20). Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

Mapping Heat Wave Hazard in Urban Areas: A Novel Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach

Shiva, J. S., Chandler, D. G., & Kunkel, K. E. (2022, June 29). Atmosphere.

Heterogeneous response of global precipitation concentration to global warming

Dong, Q., Wang, W., Kunkel, K. E., Shao, Q., Xing, W., & Wei, J. (2020, September 29). International Journal of Climatology.

Observed Climatological Relationships of Extreme Daily Precipitation Events With Precipitable Water and Vertical Velocity in the Contiguous United States

Kunkel, K. E., Stevens, S. E., Stevens, L. E., & Karl, T. R. (2020, May 10). Geophysical Research Letters.

An Assessment of Rainfall from Hurricanes Harvey and Florence Relative to Other Extremely Wet Storms in the United States

Kunkel, K. E., & Champion, S. M. (2019, October 25). Geophysical Research Letters.

Development of a Submonthly Temperature Product to Monitor Near-Real-Time Climate Conditions and Assess Long-Term Heat Events in the United States

Rennie, J., Bell, J. E., Kunkel, K. E., Herring, S., Cullen, H., & Abadi, A. M. (2019, October 23). Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.

Evaluation of CMIP5 ability to reproduce twentieth century regional trends in surface air temperature and precipitation over CONUS

Lee, J., Waliser, D., Lee, H., Loikith, P., & Kunkel, K. E. (2019, July 16). Climate Dynamics.

Investigating the association between late spring Gulf of Mexico sea surface temperatures and U.S. Gulf Coast precipitation extremes with focus on Hurricane Harvey

Russell, B. T., Risser, M. D., Smith, R. L., & Kunkel, K. E. (2019, July 23). Environmetrics.

Localized Changes in Heat Wave Properties Across the United States

Shiva, J. S., Chandler, D. G., & Kunkel, K. E. (2019, March 1). Earth s Future.

Precipitation Extremes: Trends and Relationships with Average Precipitation and Precipitable Water in the Contiguous United States

Kunkel, K. E., Karl, T. R., Squires, M. F., Yin, X., Stegall, S. T., & Easterling, D. R. (2019, November 20). Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.

Precipitation and Fatal Motor Vehicle Crashes: Continental Analysis with High-Resolution Radar Data

Stevens, S. E., Schreck, C. J., Saha, S., Bell, J. E., & Kunkel, K. E. (2019, March 26). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Simulation of Daily Extreme Precipitation over the United States in the CMIP5 30-Yr Decadal Prediction Experiment

Stegall, S. T., & Kunkel, K. E. (2019, February 5). Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.

Changes in extreme events and the potential impacts on human health

Bell, J. E., Brown, C. L., Conlon, K., Herring, S., Kunkel, K. E., Lawrimore, J., … Uejio, C. (2018, April 3). Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association.

Impacts of increasing aridity and wildfires on aerosol loading in the intermountain Western US

Hallar, A. G., Molotch, N. P., Hand, J. L., Livneh, B., McCubbin, I. B., Petersen, R., … Kunkel, K. E. (2017, January 1). Environmental Research Letters.

Multivariate Downscaling Approach Preserving Cross Correlations across Climate Variables for Projecting Hydrologic Fluxes

Journal of Hydrometeorology, 18(8), 2187–2205.

Synthesis of public water supply use in the United States: Spatio‐temporal patterns and socio‐economic controls

Earth's Future, 5(7), 771–788.

Detection and attribution of climate extremes in the observed record

Weather and Climate Extremes, 11, 17–27.

Evaluation of Total Precipitable Water from CRCM4 using the NVAP-MEaSUREs Dataset and ERA-Interim Reanalysis Data

Paquin, D., Frigon, A., & Kunkel, K. E. (2016, September 29). ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN.

Innovations in information management and access for assessments

Waple, A. M., Champion, S. M., Kunkel, K. E., & Tilmes, C. (2016, February 17). Climatic Change.

Seasonal and regional variations in extreme precipitation event frequency using CMIP5

Janssen, E., Sriver, R. L., Wuebbles, D. J., & Kunkel, K. E. (2016, May 20). Geophysical Research Letters.

Trends and Extremes in Northern Hemisphere Snow Characteristics

Current Climate Change Reports, 2(2), 65–73.

A framework for examining climate-driven changes to the seasonality and geographical range of coastal pathogens and harmful algae

Climate Risk Management, 8, 16–27.

Effects of ocean warming on growth and distribution of dinoflagellates associated with ciguatera fish poisoning in the Caribbean

Kibler, S. R., Tester, P. A., Kunkel, K. E., Moore, S. K., & Litaker, R. W. (2015, September 9). Ecological Modelling.

Innovations in science and scenarios for assessment

Kunkel, K. E., Moss, R., & Parris, A. (2015, August 28). Climatic Change.

Reply to “Comments on ‘Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge’”

Kossin, J. P., Karl, T. R., Knutson, T. R., Emanuel, K. A., Kunkel, K. E., & O’Brien, J. J. (2015, April 22). Reply to “Comments on ‘Monitoring and Understanding Trends in Extreme Storms: State of Knowledge.’” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

The Seasonal Nature of Extreme Hydrological Events in the Northeastern United States

Frei, A., Kunkel, K. E., & Matonse, A. (2015, July 10). Journal of Hydrometeorology.

Is the monthly temperature climate of the United States becoming more extreme?

Kunkel, K. E., Vose, R. S., Stevens, L. E., & Knight, R. W. (2014, December 16). Geophysical Research Letters.

Observational- and model-based trends and projections of extreme precipitation over the contiguous United States

Earth's Future, 2(2), 99–113.

Changes in weather and climate extremes: State of knowledge relevant to air and water quality in the United States

Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 64(2), 184–197.

Monitoring and understanding trends in extreme storms state of knowledge

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 94(4), 499–514.

Probable maximum precipitation and climate change

Kunkel, K. E., Karl, T. R., Easterling, D. R., Redmond, K., Young, J., Yin, X., & Hennon, P. (2013, March 14). Geophysical Research Letters.

A Distributed Cotton Growth Model Developed from GOSSYM and Its Parameter Determination

Liang, X. Z., Xu, M., Gao, W., Reddy, K. R., Kunkel, K., Schmoldt, D. L., & Samel, A. N. (2012, May 1). Agronomy Journal.

Meteorological Causes of the Secular Variations in Observed Extreme Precipitation Events for the Conterminous United States

Kunkel, K. E., Easterling, D. R., Kristovich, D. A. R., Gleason, B., Stoecker, L., & Smith, R. (2012, January 23). Journal of Hydrometeorology.

Physical Modeling of U.S. Cotton Yields and Climate Stresses during 1979 to 2005

Liang, X. Z., Xu, M., Gao, W., Reddy, K. R., Kunkel, K., Schmoldt, D. L., & Samel, A. N. (2012, May 1). Agronomy Journal.

Regional Climate–Weather Research and Forecasting Model

Liang, X.-Z., Xu, M., Yuan, X., Ling, T., Choi, H. I., Zhang, F., … Michalakes, J. (2012, March 27). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

Recent increases in U.S. heavy precipitation associated with tropical cyclones

Kunkel, K. E., Easterling, D. R., Kristovich, D. A. R., Gleason, B., Stoecker, L., & Smith, R. (2010, December 1). Geophysical Research Letters.

The response of Great Lakes water levels to future climate scenarios with an emphasis on Lake Michigan-Huron

Journal of Great Lakes Research, 36, 51–58.

A new look at lake-effect snowfall trends in the Laurentian Great Lakes using a temporally homogeneous data set

Journal of Great Lakes Research, 35(1), 23–29.

How spatially coherent and statistically robust are temporal changes in extreme precipitation in the contiguous USA?

International Journal of Climatology, 29(1), 31–45.

Impacts of long-range transport of global pollutants and precursor gases on U.S. air quality under future climatic conditions

Journal of Geophysical Research, 113(D19).

Regional climate models downscaling analysis of general circulation models present climate biases propagation into future change projections

Geophysical Research Letters, 35(8).

Sensitivity of future ozone concentrations in the northeast USA to regional climate change

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 13(5-6), 597–606.

Regional climate model downscaling of the U.S. summer climate and future change

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 111(D10), n/a-n/a.

The twentieth-century pluvial in the western United States

Geophysical Research Letters, 32(7), n/a-n/a.

Temporal variations in frost-free season in the United States: 1895–2000

Geophysical Research Letters, 31(3).